Quotes About Nobility

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

Great men should drink with harness on their throats.

Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

El mundo está lleno de libros. Algunos son hermosos. Algunos llegan a justificar la presencia del hombre sobre la tierra. Incluso los hay que son verdaderamente grandes, genuinamente libres, noblemente generosos. Amamos a estos libros. Nunca a las maniobras que se esconden tras ellos. Son hermosos sus mensajes. Nunca las pugnas a que se llegó para imponerlos.

Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword.

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?